On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Marc Perkel wrote:
> I'm using dbdns to do a lookup of the NS record of IP addresses and I
> have a proble. When there is no NS record I get this error.
When there is no NS record, you should get "no NS record", not "DEFER".
> headers command: lookup of "ns=136.79.149.in-addr.arpa" gave DEFER:
When I try that lookup using "dig", the result is SERVFAIL. That is a
DNS error; you can't know whether there is an NS record or not.
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